Attachment for awnings.



L. H. HATLEY.

ATTACHMENT Fon AWNINGS. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. I9I4.

Patented N v.v 3Q, 1915.

, LANE H.' HATL'EY, on Marmara-TENNESSEE.' j

ATTACHMENT FOR AWNINGS.

Patented Nov. 3o, 1915.

Application led November 6, 1914. Serial No. 870,688.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LANE H. HATLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, Shelby county, and State of Tennessee, have invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Awnings, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionv relates to an improved attachment for awnings of the roller type, and consists of means whereby the unrolling of the awning from the roller may be arrested and limited at the desired point and before the vfabric has been entirely unwound or reached the point of its direct' attachment to the roller, thus insuring against tearing the fabric free from the roller, as frequently happens, by allowing it to unroll freely to the entire limit of its length. By means of such attachment the life of the awning is prolonged and its frequent repair is obviated, all. as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is aperspective view of a section of a store front having windows shielded by an awning of the type mentioned which awningis equipped with my said invention, Fig. 2 a detail sectional View of an awning equipped with the device constituting my said invention, the awning being in a rolled up position, Fig. 3 a similar view with the awning in an unrolled, or down position, Fig. 1 a detail top plan of the device as applied to the awning in use, and Fig. 5 a detail edge elevation of the same.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the fabric or awning, proper, B the supporting frame attached to the side of the building, C the folding brackets for supporting the lower end of the awning, and D the roller. All of these parts are, or may be, of any desired or approved construction and arrangement and require no special description herein. The frame B may consist of anv appropriate supports attached to the building for supporting the awning, or separate brackets or other appropriate supports for the purpose. Y

The device forming the principal subject matter of my invention consists of a detaining pawl or dog 10 formed T-shaped and pivoted at its inner end in a bracket 11 on frame B on a pivot 12. The outer end of the dog is upturned or curved, as at 13, to

permit it to ride freely on :the surface of the awning. A catch 14, consisting of a plate of appropriate length, is attached to the roller D at any desired point between its ends. It is formed with an outturned outer edge or flange 15 having a recess adapted to receive the shank of the dog 10. In use the wide or T-end of the pawl 10 is adapted to abut against the outer face of said out-turned edge and arrest the unrolling movement of the awning when it has reached the point desired.

In use the roller D is mounted in the brackets b of the frame B in the usual, or any approved, manner. The device consisting of the dog 10 and catch 14 are attached as shown, or in any approved manner, the dog being hinged to the frame or a bracket or part of the building adjacent thereto and the plate attached to the roller at the point itis desired said roller to be arrested in its unrolling movement, the dog being adjusted to register with the notch of the out-turned flange 15 of said plate 14. When the awning is unrolled from roller B, as soon as the plate 14 is exposed and comes to the upper side of the roller, the outer' end of dog 10 engages with the notch in the plate 14:, stops the further unrolling movement and saves the awning at the point of its direct attachment tov the roller from the strain incident f to unrolling it to its extreme length.

Having thus fully described my said invention what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent lis:

1. An attachment for roller awnings comprising a pivoted dog attached to an appropriate adjacent support, and a catch attached to the awning roller intermediate its shaped, and a catch attached to the roller my hand and seal at Memphis, Tennessee, intermediate its length at a point Where it is this 30th dav of October, A. D. nineteen desired to limitthe unrollingoi' the awning hundred and fourteen.

and formed with an out-turned edge having LANE H. HATLEY. [n s] a notch adapted to receive the catch ,of said Witnesses: T-shaped dog, substantially as set forth. JOHN L. STOUT,

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set JOHN W. FAR'LEY.

Copies of this patent mayy be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

